And now for some really good news:
http://blog.ianhamet.com/index.php/archive/2005/10/19/1426/
http://www.threesources.com/archives/002048.html
Purchase at a discounted price from joyo
All prices in Chinese RMB
And now for some really good news:
http://blog.ianhamet.com/index.php/archive/2005/10/19/1426/
http://www.threesources.com/archives/002048.html
Purchase at a discounted price from joyo
All prices in Chinese RMB
YES! This reminds me of what I heard in Dr. Leonard Peikoff’s DIM Hypothesis course (which is being offered FREE right now on ARI’s website, on the registered users page)…Session One, Part 2 about 38 minutes into it, where Dr. Peikoff quotes his agent saying that in China “they’re very, very interested in books dealing with American business.” Dr. Peikoff says that he has signed contracts for For the New Intellectual and The Voice of Reason by Ayn Rand. The Virtue of Selfishness may be the next one after those. Also an agent says that it “seems to be the fashion these days to publish Ayn Rand in China.”
That is awesome…but one thing confuses me. How can it be sold in China at all? I would have thought that anything by Rand would have been banned years ago.
That is awesome…but one thing confuses me. How can it be sold in China at all? I would have thought that anything by Rand would have been banned years ago.
That’s what’s so exciting: this is like the Catholic church publishing Gallileo instead of putting him under house arrest, as they did.
Brandon
China today is evidently quite different from what it was 20 years ago. In countries at this type of stage of moving away from totalitarianism, there is a mix of people running the place. There will be some who’ll want to keep power at any cost, there are others who want to open up but are fearful of anarchy, and there will also be a few who want to speed up change. (Often, these are people who are powerful but did not become so because of their ideology.) In the older totalitarian system, such people would have to shut up, or leave. In the new system, some of these guys learn to play the system and push it in directions they want it to go.
I wouldn’t be surprised if some senior Chinese official in the “publishing hierarchy” is something of Ayn Rand fan, and decided to push her books as important for a society that wants to move “practically” toward greater prosperity.
I wouldn’t be surprised if some senior Chinese official in the “publishing hierarchy” is something of Ayn Rand fan, and decided to push her books as important for a society that wants to move “practically” toward greater prosperity.
This is highly likely.